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Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shares facts about the locations where calamitous historical events occurred, covering topics ranging from the Tower of London and the torture methods used there, to dungeon life for prisoners, and the most popular poisoning methods.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents eleven cursed places around the world, including a ruined city people are afraid to enter, a rocky creek where a dead woman's spirit is said to drown swimmers, and the frozen grave of a man who lived more than 5,000 years ago.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Hayley gets the lead role in a new TV show called Sadie Solves It, she's so excited...even if there are rumors of hauntings surrounding the Silver Screen Studios. It's LA, she thinks--there are ghost stories everywhere! But to her surprise, strange things actually start happening as production ramps up. Lights flicker, cold blasts of air come out of nowhere, and one day the electricity is cut to the studio entirely with no clear cause. Can...
6) The dead end
Author
Series
Poison apple books volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Casey Slater can't believe her bad luck. Instead of the perfect summer vacation she'd planned, Casey is in a remote country town, where her parents are restoring an old, creaky, creepy house. Worst of all, everyone in town thinks the house is haunted. Soon Casey thinks so, too--a vase explodes, a china cabinet falls over on its own--and it seems like the ghost doesn't want them there. Casey thought she'd be dying of boredom, but now she's scared...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Pub
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the eleven creepy castles in this book, meet the spirit of a queen who carries her head as she wanders, a deadly prince who kills his enemies by piercing them with sharp poles, and other nefarious characters and situations.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles eleven supposedly haunted caves, from one where Spanish conquistadors are supposed to have hidden treasure over 350 years ago, to another where a thirteen-year-old boy discovered the largest underground lake in the United States.
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cordelia Liu knew Shadow School was going to be different. Still, she didn't expect the school grounds to be filled with ghosts. Cordelia soon realizes she's not the only one who can see the ghosts; her new friend Benji can too. Together with super-smart Agnes, the trio are determined to find out why the ghosts are there, and whether there's a way to set them free. But the school was created with more sinister intentions, and someone is willing to...
11) Dead voices
Author
Series
Small spaces quartet volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Trapped at a haunted ski resort, Ollie, Coco, and Brian must rely on their friendship and sharp minds if they want to escape"--
12) Haunted U.S.A
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
ix, 86 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collects stories of American haunting, from the soldiers of Gettysburg to the crawling statue of a young girl in a Chicago cemetery.
14) City of ghosts
Author
Series
City of ghosts volume 1
Language
English
Description
Ever since her near-fatal drowning, Cassidy has been able to pull back the "Veil" that separates the living from the dead and see ghosts, not that she wants to -- she was really looking forward to a ghost-free summer at the beach. However, her parents are going to start filming a TV series about the world's most haunted places, starting with Edinburgh, with its graveyards, castles, and restless phantoms -- and Cass and her personal ghost companion,...
16) Haunted hotels
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Pub
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Learn the spooky histories and legends about some famous hotels around the world that are said to be haunted.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
National Book Award winner William Alexander writes about two classmates, Jasper and Rosa, who are assigned to appease the many ghosts haunting the school in Ingot, when they meet powerful new spirit-friends, as well as a surprising enemy.
18) Bridge of souls
Author
Series
City of ghosts volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Cassidy Blake and her ghostly friend, Jacob, have survived the ghosts of Edinburgh and Paris, but New Orleans is a haunted city in a class by itself, and that is the current stop for her parents' TV show; but there is something a lot scarier than ghosts here: the Emissary of Death is after Cassidy, and to defeat it she will need the help of the Society of the Black Cat and she will also be faced with a terrible choice--lose one of her two friends,...
Author
Publisher
Bearport Publishing Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
It was the night of April 14, 1912. Jessie Sayre, a young orphan, tossed and turned in a feverish sleep. Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, the Titanic cruised in the dark waters of the Atlantic Ocean toward an unseen iceberg. Yet somehow Jessie sensed the Titanic's doom. "I am so afraid. Can't you see that big ship sinking in the water?" she called out in the night. "Look at all those people who are drowning!" Then Jessie fell into a coma and died...
20) Camp Murderface
Author
Series
Camp Murderface volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The year: 1983. The place: Ohio. The camp: Scary as heck. Camp Sweetwater is finally reopening, three decades after it mysteriously shut down. Campers Corryn Quinn and Tez Jones have each had more than enough of their regular lives--they're so ready to take their summer at Sweetwater by storm. But before they can so much as toast one marshmallow, strange happenings start...happening. Can they survive the summer? Or will Camp Sweetwater shut down for...
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